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Vector Quantization

Theory Optimization NLP

April 16, 2026 · WALC 2127 · Kabir Jain

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Gaussian Processes

Theory

March 12, 2026 · WALC 2127 · Alexandre Sauquet

Slides

Reinforcement Learning and Game Theory

Theory Reinforcement Learning

March 5, 2026 · WALC 2127 · Kabir Jain

Slides

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Theory Optimization Fine-Tuning

February 26, 2026 · WALC 2127 · Fiyin

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Steering Vectors

Theory Interpretability

February 19, 2026 · WALC 2127 · Kabir Jain

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Modern Vision Transformers

Computer Vision Transformers

February 5, 2026 · WALC 2127 · Manav Gagvani

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Modern Attention Architectures

Theory NLP Transformers

January 29, 2026 · WALC 2127 · Alexandre Sauquet

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Efficient Reasoning via Reward Model

Applied AI LLMs Reinforcement Learning

December 4, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Elijah D.

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Inference Optimization Techniques

Applied AI Optimization Systems/GPU

November 20, 2025 · WALC 3132 · Shay Manor

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DeepSeek OCR

Applied AI LLMs Computer Vision

November 13, 2025 · WALC 3132 · Oskar Jonientz

Optimizers

Theory Optimization

October 23, 2025 · WALC 3132 · Alexandre Sauquet

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BFGS

Theory Optimization

October 9, 2025 · WALC 3132 · Alexandre Sauquet

Video Slides

Large Language Diffusion Models

Theory Computer Vision Diffusion

October 2, 2025 · WALC 3132 · Oskar Jonientz

Video

Byte Latent Transformers

NLP Transformers LLMs

September 22, 2025 · WALC 3132 · Arnav Grover

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3D Gaussian Splitting

Computer Vision

September 9, 2025 · WALC 3132 · Alexandre Sauquet

Video Slides

Recurrent Depth LLMs

Theory Interpretability LLMs

April 24, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Alexandre Sauquet

Video Slides

Optimal Transport [2/2]

Theory Generative AI

April 17, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Jinen Setpal

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Optimal Transport [1/2]

Theory Generative AI

April 10, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Jinen Setpal

Video Slides

Cube: A Roblox View of 3D Intelligence

Applied AI Computer Vision Generative AI

April 3, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Nicholas Wade

Video Slides

Robot Foundation Models (RT1, RT2, OpenVLA)

Robotics

March 27, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Alexiy Buynitsky

Neural Tangent Kernel

Theory

March 6, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Jinen Setpal

Slides

ZeRO: Memory Optimizations Toward Training Trillion Parameter Models

Applied AI Systems/GPU

February 27, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Saad Sharief

Titans

NLP Theory Transformers

February 20, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Alexandre Sauquet

Video Slides

Sparse AutoEncoders

NLP Interpretability

February 13, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Jinen Setpal

Video Slides

NVIDIA Cosmos

Robotics Applied AI Generative AI

February 6, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Alexiy Buynitsky

Video Slides

SoTA Approaches to Reasoning in LLMs — DeepSeek R1

Reinforcement Learning Applied AI Generative AI LLMs

January 30, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Jinen Setpal

Video Slides

RoPE

Theory Generative AI Transformers

January 23, 2025 · LWSN B151 · Alexiy Buynitsky

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Lumos : Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Scene Text Recognition

Applied AI Computer Vision NLP Generative AI LLMs

November 21, 2024 · WALC 2088 · Adrien Qi

An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks

Safety

November 14, 2024 · WALC 2088 · Nathan Reed

Video Slides

Diffusion Policy for MPC

Applied AI Robotics Generative AI Diffusion

November 7, 2024 · WALC 2088 · Alexiy Buynitsky

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AGOP for Deep Neural Collapse

Interpretability Theory

October 24, 2024 · WALC 2088 · Jinen Setpal

Video Slides

Deep Neural Collapse

Interpretability Theory

October 10, 2024 · WALC 2088 · Jinen Setpal

Video Slides

Graph Neural Network Explainer

Graph ML

October 3, 2024 · WALC 2088 · Aaron

Group Transformation Invariance

Robustness Theory

September 26, 2024 · WALC 2088 · Jinen Setpal

Slides

Physics Informed Machine Learning

Robustness Theory

September 19, 2024 · WALC 2088 · Rohan Dekate

Video Slides

Intro to Reinforcement Learning

Robotics Reinforcement Learning

September 11, 2024 · WALC 2088 · Alexiy Buynitsky

Transformers (Rerun)

Theory NLP Transformers

September 3, 2024 · LWSN B155 · Jinen Setpal

Slides

GNN, Graphformer, Body Transformer

Graph ML Transformers

August 29, 2024 · LWSN B134 · Alexiy Buynitsky

Omnipredictors

Theory Robustness

April 18, 2024 · Jinen Setpal

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LoRA

Theory NLP Fine-Tuning

March 21, 2024 · Ref

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DDPM & DDIM

Theory Computer Vision Generative AI Diffusion

March 7, 2024 · Jeremy Lu

Slides

Version-Space Algebra Program Synthesis

Theory

February 29, 2024 · Mikail K

A Software-defined Tensor Streaming Multiprocessor for Large-scale Machine Learning

Systems/GPU

February 22, 2024 · Saad Sharief

Video Slides

AI Inference in Production

Systems/GPU Applied AI

February 15, 2024 · Saad Sharief

Video Slides

Monosemanticity

Interpretability

February 8, 2024 · Jinen Setpal

Video Slides

Transformer Circuits

Interpretability Theory Transformers

February 1, 2024 · Jinen Setpal

Video Slides

Transformers

Theory NLP Transformers

January 25, 2024 · Alexiy Buynitsky

Video Slides